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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Campus Archives University of Maine Publications Spring 4-22-1977 Maine Campus April 22 1977 Maine Campus Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus Repository Citation Staff, Maine Campus, "Maine Campus April 22 1977" (1977). Maine Campus Archives. 880. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus/880 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Campus Archives by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Weekend /Maine Campus Vol.82 No.22 Friday, 22, 1977 McGovern elected president by Dan Warren UMO junior Michael K. McGovern paigning before the legal starting date of received overwhelming support from April 15 was struck down Thursday by a dormitories, fraternities and off-campus unanimous vote of the FEPC. students Wednesday to register nearly 75 per cent of the vote and soundly defeat Committee member and first vice opponent Robert A. Small for the presi- president of the University of Maine dency of the UMO Student Government by Fraternity Board, John R. Powers told the a 1,200 vote margin. Campus Thursday night that McGovern and Lewis' alleged campaigning before the McGovern, a junior public management UMO Panhellenic Council on April 4 was major from Portland ran on a ticket with permissable because on that date. Mc- Gordon A. Lewis. a junior political science Govern and Lewis "were not legally and major from Freeport. Small ran with James technically candidates." A. Rudder. If they had talked to the group on April 5, when the campaign process officially McGovern out -tallied Small 1849 to 616. started, then they would have been in clear Lewis beat Rudder 1784 to 644. violation of committee rules." Powers said. McGovern, a Somerset Hall resident, "But on April 4 they were not legally and won by a better than six to one margin in technically candidates." his own Hilltop dormitory complex (461-69) The Panhellenic Council is made up of garnering a better than five to one edge representatives of UMO sororities. among off-campus voters (190-35) and better than three to one edge among UMO fraternities (198-54). The major reason McGovern won by a three to one landslide, he said, was the Off-campus students elected as their editorial endorsement he received from the Off-Campus Board chairperson Robert W. Maine Campus in the Tuesday issue President-elect Mike McGovern [L]and Vice-president-elect Gordy Lewis. (Russ Caron, a sophomore arts and sciences preceding the election. McKnight pho•(,) major from Freeport. Elected vice chair- person of the Off-Campus Board Jean B. "Gordy and I think we still would have McManus, a freshman animal and veteri- won even if the Campus hadn't endorsed nary science major from Albion. us." McGovern said. "But we think the Bumstock hassles over; margin would only have been about two to one." Selected this month to head UMO's free beer on April 30 Inter-Dormitory Board (IDB) was Ivy A. by Nelson As for the wide margin he and Lewis Toni Cloutier said. "We just want ey eryone to Elfring, a sophomore parks and recreation have a received among off-campus voters, Mc- Bumstock, the annual gala of free beer good time." major from Yarmouth. Vice president of The event, Govern said his and Lewis' announced and music, is alive and well and will be which is scheduled from 2 IDB is Warren E. Michaelson, a second p.m. to intention of investigating the UMO police held Saturday, April 30. 10 p.m., will feature five bands. year civil engineering technology major There will also and of having all General Student Senate After months of negotiations between he food available and eyen from Saugus. Mass. Treasurer is David M. the portable toilets meetings open to the public appealed to student government, Residential Life, Perkins, a junior majoring in business from Nelson the "liberal" off-campus electorate. He police and residents of the UMO cabins stressed that cooperation is Dunedin. Fla. needed so also cited the endorsement of O'Leary as who sponsor the event, an agreement was that Bumstock could be held another "significant." reached Tuesday to hold Bumstock in its year. Voter turnout in Wednesday's election original form on the field adjacent to the "If people would park in designated was approximately 35 per cent, the highest cabins, areas and not on Park Street. it would His impressive mandate among the turnout in years, current Student Govern- "We are very nleased to prevent a lot of trouble," Nelson said. fraternities was due to a solid "grass have come to an ment President Dan O'Leary told a understanding "said Student He noted that during Bumstock a roots" organization, McGovern said, and Government Thursday morning "breakfast club meet- President Dan O'Leary. student would he able to park in a faculty to a letter-writing campaign by Beta Theta ing" of administration, faculty and stu- Scott Nelson R.A. of the cabins, parking area and not worry about getting a Pi president, Robert J. Barry. said dents. this year's event will be watched closely ticket. and if there is any trouble it could effect the I.D.'s of those drinking beer will be "Bob Barry wrote a nice letter to the future of Bumstock. checked. Nelson said. A charge by UMO student Katie Maine Campus endorsing us," McGovern Minors will not be welcomed nor will "Bumstock is from the residents of the Thurston to the Student Government's Fair said, "as well as letters to each fraternity people not affiliated with the University. cabins to the neople of the University." Election Practice Committee (FEPC) that president asking that they support us. This "The residents of the cabins Nelson said. "We hope they all come out McGovern and Lewis began their cam- was quite helpful." put Bumstock on for the people of UMO," and have a great time." UMO's quality: questions still linger by Jim Sloan ing with a substandard but over-rated been done to improve the university's grams and general breadth of educational (First of four articles) college education. Its faculty is more educational opportunities and that UMO's opportunities. Its recommendations fo- concerned with its own salary level than limitations are now foremost in everyone's cused on the problems of maintaining In September of 1974, UMO President mind, many of the force's warnings have quality in these areas. The problems the Howard NeY ille impaneled a task force on gone unheeded. Reasons for the inactivity force identified, its subsequent recom- undergraduate education at UMO. The in many cases only demonstrate why mendations and the university's response task force, headed by Prof. Stephen Norton UMO's inadequacies appeared in the first to these recommendations will be chron- of the geology department and composed 'EAOE place. icled in the following articles. of 10 faculty members representing all six rhis university exists in a relatively poor It is important to note that changes often coreges, one dean, one graduate student state, and often the faculty or administra- require time and money, and UMO cannot and three undergraduate students, was XD1g] tors have aspirations that cure all its ills overnight. Those ills have exceed the charged with reporting on the general expectation of Maine's taxpayers; the cost been diagnosed. but we may' have to wait educational the opportunities available at quality of the education they help of these aspirations often exceed the for the cure. UMO. provide. Improvement of the overall financial capability of the state. There is a The task force found a general agree- Two years later that group had drawn an quality of the educational opportunities national trend, the task force added. ment among faculty, administrators and unpleasantly detailed picture of UMO, its was necessary, the task force warned, or toward shrinking academic standards and students that compositional skills are less programs and its people. UMO, it found, the university would be in danger of losing UMO's problems. although acute by adequately demonstrated by present un- languishes in a stifling atmosphere of those opportunities as well as its status as a comparison, are not unique. academic stagnation, composed of a true university. dergraduates than by those students of The task force, in drawing information previous years. In response to a question- stucle”it body entering the university Now, nearly an academic year after the from many sources within the university, naire, 37 per cent of the faculty responding unprepared for the rigors of post- task force's conclusions were first publi- identified several limitations existing in said that the verbal preparation of their secondary educational demands, and leav- cized, it seems that although much has UMO's students, faculty, academic pro- (continued on page 11) 2 Maine Campus • Friday, April 22, 1977 Spring rite to benefit whole campus A spring time rite at UMO-Maine from the basketball court across from organizer for Maine Day, said civil additional $1,000 in costs to finish the Day—will be reinstituted this year on April Androscoggin Hall to Murray Hall and the engineering majors as well as other construction, according to director Alan 27 and students will take advantage of a extension of the Fay Hyland Botanical students would assist UMO's physical Lewis. day off from classes to do more than Garden in the area between Sigma Chi and plant employees in building the sidewalk Students also hope to plant pines. sunbathe. Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity houses on and noted that student groups had already spruce, fir, hemlcok and cedar trees and to Current plans call for student participa- College Avenue.